ROLL OF HONOUR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17064, 17 August 1917, Page 4

ROLL OF HONOUR.

6 Mr. Sargeant, of Okoia. has received word that Gunner J. S. Robinson, of Ukoia. has been wounded for the sets end time. He went away with the Hh Remforceffleots;

Miv R. g. Waite, dr Gonville, re--f«Yfd fc cable last evening stating that hw son, Sapper N. F. tf)iek) Waite was wounded and gassed on July 30. Sapper Wait* left with the Main Body, and has been on.aetiv* «erv»c« tight up to th« present tim«. Mr It. G. MeNiven has received from Mr Cecil Wray a letter covering a communication- received by that gentleman from Rifleman A. Todd Murray, in answer to an inquiry concerning the Heath o? Private C/A. McNiren who fell at the Battle of Flers in September last. In his tetter to Mr Wray> Rifleman Murray says: "I win certainly let *eu know all I can concerning M«Niten. After ire had been relieved from the frdnt lino trenches at Flers we were brought back to supports, and while in supp-ttts two mates and myself came across MeNiven in a shell bole. He was then dead. It appeared to me that MeNiveu had been wounded, but had managed to crawl into the shell-hole, where I think he musKhav« been hit again, and was either killed or died from wounds received. When MeNiyen wa« being searched there was no sign of an identification.disc. I then came to the conclusion that some othev unfortunatr, fellow had already taken MeNiven's disc, and had afterwards been killed. I took charge of McNiven's pay book, and as soon as I left the Somm« I immediately sent the photograph* to Miss , of Wanganui, to hand to Mrs. McNiven. Last January I gent * written statement to the N. 35. Records Office concerning: MoNiV. eh. corroborated br' Rifleman Glover and Rifleman Brickson, the two men ■who wer« with me at the time."